⁹ So after they finished eating and drinking in Shiloh Hannah got up. The priest Eli sat by the pillars near the door in the Temple of Jehovah. ¹⁰ She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. ¹¹ O Jehovah of Hosts: If you will truly notice the sorrow of your servant. Remember me. Do not turn away from me. If you will give me a son, then I will give him to you, Jehovah, all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.

Phrases

Bitterness of Soul

Prayed to the Lord

To the Lord

Wept Bitterly

Weeping Bitterly

Names

Hannah

Jehovah

Cross References

Job 7:11

I will not keep from speaking. I must express my anguish. I must complain in my bitterness.

Job 10:1

I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

Genesis 50:10

They mourned loudly for a long time at the threshing place at Atad east of the Jordan. Joseph performed mourning ceremonies for seven days.

Judges 21:2

The people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. They lifted their voices and wept bitterly.

Ruth 1:20

She said: Do not call me Naomi (meaning pleasant). Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life bitter.

2 Samuel 13:36

As soon as he finished speaking, the king's sons arrived. They cried loudly and the king and all his men also cried very bitterly.

2 Samuel 17:8

You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others.

2 Kings 20:3

Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Job 9:18

He will not allow me to catch my breath. Yet he fills me with bitterness.

Psalm 50:15

Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

Psalm 91:15

When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will deliver you and honor you.

Isaiah 38:15

There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die.

Isaiah 54:6

Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.

Jeremiah 13:17

If you will not listen, I will cry secretly over your arrogance. I will cry bitterly, and my eyes will flow with tears because Jehovah's flock will be taken captive.

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for the dead or mourn for him. Weep continually for the one who goes away. For he will never return or see his native land.

Lamentations 3:15

He has made my life nothing but pain. He gives me bitterness in full measure.

Luke 22:44

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of his life on earth, when he [Christ] offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save him out of death, and was heard because of his godly reverence. (Galatians 1:1) (Psalm 69:13)